I recommend the Shonda Rhimes talk, which I just watched. TED talks are full of valuable, fun pieces. This Rhimes talk is related to her book "My Year of Saying Yes" but it is quicker and very moving.
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 18:44 minutes · Filmed Feb 2016 · Posted Feb 2016 · TED2016 Shonda Rhimes, the writer/producer behind Grey's Anatomy, Scandal and How to Get Away With Murder, is responsible for some 70 hours of television per season, and she loves to work. "When I am hard at work, when I am deep in it, there is no other feeling," she says. She has a name for this feeling: the hum. The hum is a drug, the hum is music. But what happens when it stops? In this moving talk, join Rhimes on a journey through her "year of yes" and find out how she got her hum back. | |
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